[Sabertooth]

The present open visa policy, with it overconcern for aliens, including enemy aliens, is ludicrous. It even stretches to the fact that now — some eight weeks after Sept. 11 — a terrorist is still able to take flying lessons at any of the flight schools in America.      

 "I haven't received any directives from the government to stop training foreigners," says the operator a of a flight schools in Danbury, Conn.     

 If nothing else, that is the ultimate victory of political correctness over common sense, once a great American virtue.

growl!

[quebecois]

This situation is truly amazing. As I mentioned on another thread....it has become apparent to me that large numbers of Americans would rather to continue to suffer mass casualties from more terrorist attacks than to risk appearing to be "insenstive to diversity".

Any serious country would have suspended all visas, expelled all foreigners, rounded up all illegal aliens, and stopped all immigration cold within hours of the attacks.

But, alas, America is no longer a serious nation.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Of the 19 suicide hijackers, 15 came here on "Multiple Use" Saudi visas, good for up to two years of stay. Are there many Saudis still here? Some 60,000 total Saudi visas are granted each year, too many for anyone to check their backgrounds.

They were and they are in the U.S LEGALLY and we know terrorism is a Muslim problem since most of the terrorist incidents occur within the Muslim world. There is hardly a Muslim country that is not plagued by terrorism such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Algeria, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Iran just to mention a few. Terror and counter-terror has become the norm in an endless cycle of violence and brutality. IMO, NO visas should be given to people from Arab countries.